No longer able to 'connect' my two computers

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Mike Price 0

I have been using Synergy between my Mac and my Windows 7 Pro pc, without issue.
However, I suddenly found that I could only connect my Mac (as a server) and my PC (as a client) and not the other way around. So I tried reconfiguring the server on both machines (showing the layout of each correctly), uninstalled and reinstalled (after clearing out the cache from the originally installed programmes), etc.
Now they won't work at all. I just get continual 'Warning: failed to connect to server. Connection was refused'.
So I can't use this software and am back to having 2 x keyboards and 2 x mouse on my desk. Which is a pain.
On the Mac, when I try to use it as the 'client', I get the following:
16-01-19T10:58:51] NOTE: connecting to '192.168.1.66': 192.168.1.66:24800
[2016-01-19T10:58:51] WARNING: failed to connect to server: cannot connect socket: Host is down
[2016-01-19T10:58:51] DEBUG1: connecting to server
[2016-01-19T10:58:51] DEBUG1: connection failed
[2016-01-19T10:58:51] DEBUG: retry in 1 seconds
[2016-01-19T10:58:52] NOTE: connecting to '192.168.1.66': 192.168.1.66:24800
[2016-01-19T10:58:52] WARNING: failed to connect to server: cannot connect socket: Host is down
[2016-01-19T10:58:52] DEBUG1: connecting to server
[2016-01-19T10:58:52] DEBUG1: connection failed
[2016-01-19T10:58:52] DEBUG: retry in 1 seconds
(over and over again.)
On the PC, acting as the Server, I simply get a pile of 'errors codes ('failed to start server / failed in init synwinhk.dll / etc.) Can't copy this over as the bloody programme is not working (so no copy and paste facility between my screens!)
Any ideas?
Edited January 22, 2016 by Guest

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Tomasz Wagel 0

This is known issue, not fixed for 3 years:
[url]http://superuser.com/questions/488913/error-about-synrgyhk-dll-when-starting-synergy[/url]
[url]https://github.com/symless/synergy/issues/4957[/url]
This is really sad, that paid product has such flaw, that basically makes it useless.